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‘It doesn’t bother me at all’: Trump says he isn’t worried Russia will attack a NATO country and denies his CIA director issued any warning to Putin

Source: Axios

U.S. President Donald Trump said he isn’t worried about a possible Russian attack on a NATO country. “I am not concerned … at all. There is no problem,” he told Axios in a phone interview.

During the interview, Trump was asked about CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s covert trip to Moscow on August 25. Some media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, suggested that Ratcliffe had come to deliver a “warning” to Russian President Vladimir Putin about a possible attack or provocation against a NATO country.

Trump said the CIA director delivered no such warning. “Ratcliffe sees his Russian counterpart once every six months or once every year,” Trump said. “They have a very good relationship. There was no message and there was nothing unusual.”

Two hours later, reporters asked Trump again about a warning to Putin. Trump said he didn’t want to comment. “They are not going to attack NATO territory,” he said.

In early August, WSJ reported that new U.S. intelligence assessments found Putin could “test NATO’s resolve” with a limited assault on an allied country in the coming years.

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